The sixth season began airing on September 4, 1994 with the first episode, "Bart of Darkness" and ended on May 21, 1995 with "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)", which is also the series' only two part episode and the concluding part would air the season premiere of the succeeding season. David Mirkin was the show runner throughout the season as well as the preceding season. The season had two holdovers from season 5, "Bart of Darkness" and "Lisa's Rival", to air at Season 6 when production had been delayed due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake, losing one month of production time. Matt Groening requested a controversial decision to have him uncredited in the episode, "A Star is Burns" as he seemed that it was blantant advertising with a character from a short-lived ABC/FOX animated series, Jay Sherman, becoming a film judge in the episode.

All 25 episodes of Season 6 including extras were released on DVD on August 16, 2005 in Region 1, October 17, 2005 in Region 2 and September 24, 2005 in Region 4. For the next five DVD's, there were two editions, one with the normal box, and this time, a Homer shaped clamshell boxset.

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During a heatwave in Springfield at the summer holiday, Bart ends up breaking his leg when he falls off his treehouse, intending to dive in a swimming pool the family had set up. He is forced to remain in his room for the rest of the summer when the leg heals, becoming increasingly paranoid in isolation after Lisa gives him a telescope.

Lisa is outperformed in everything she does by a new student named Allison Taylor who is younger yet smarter and is a better saxophone player than her. Lisa vows to beat her in one thing which would be an upcoming school diorama contest. Meanwhile Homer gets into a get-rich-quick scheme after stealing a heap of sugar.

Marge decides that she and Homer should teach the kids about romance, which they look back at their romantic experiences in earlier episodes. Most of which ended up unhappily although Homer points out that his and Marge's relationship had succeeded.

Bart and Lisa convinces that the family should go to a newly opened Itchy & Scratchy Land, winning over their parents as it has a place for adults, which Homer and Marge are happy to go to "Parent's Island" as the name of the adult orientated area while Bart, Lisa and Maggie enjoy the main theme park.

Sideshow Bob, soon released from prison, becomes a Republican candidate to be elected as Mayor of Springfield in an upcoming election against Mayor Quimby. Bart and Lisa support Quimby and try to have him win to stop Bob's evil plan.

Prologue: Marge appears to warn viewers as she did in the first two Treehouse of Horror episodes. Warning viewers that the following episode is even scarier and is sent a message that it is so scary that the Congress would not want to show it and instead play the 1947 Classic Len Ford film , 200 Miles to Oregon. Bart however interrupts the film via oscilloscope and presents the special anyway.

The Shinning: The Simpsons go to Mr. Burns' mansion in the mountains to become its caretakers. Homer ends up going crazy when there is no beer nor television available and is told by a ghostly Moe to kill his family if he wants a beer.

Time and Punishment: Homer fixes the family's toaster he broke when he had his hand in it and struggled to get it out, inadvertently turning it into a time machine in the process. He tests it by preparing toast and he is sent back to prehistoric times when toast is prepared. Despite his father's warnings about not touching anything in the past, Homer inadvertly creates alternate realities for himself.

Nightmare Cafeteria: Principal Skinner notes that detentions are becoming overcrowded and there is a lack of meat. He resolves this by having student after student cooked and served in the cafeteria, particularly being eaten by the school's teachers.

Homer and Marge's sex lives begin to fade, which Grampa creates a tonic to stimulate relationships. Seeing that it is successful as Homer and Marge, he and Grampa then sell it as "Simpson and Son's Tonic" to people which becomes a success.

After Homer is kicked out of Moe's after a harmless prank, he's forced to find a new bar. When trying to get into a bar strictly for pilots, he is mistaken for a real one and ends up causing the plane to crash. The family are given free tickets to go anywhere they wish but when getting on the plane, Marge realizes that she has a fear of flying. This phobia also alters her behavior for the worse and the family decide for Marge to contact a therapist.

Wanting to find out the mystery of how Lenny and Carl get better benefits than he does, Homer stalks them and finds out they are part of a secret society called the "Stonecutters". After managing to get in, its not long before Homer screws up and is about to get kicked out until he is discovered to be "The Chosen One".

While viewing old family photos, Bart and Lisa note there are no pictures of Maggie. Homer decides to tell them the story of how before Marge became pregnant with Maggie, Homer was able to quit his job at the Nuclear Power Plant to work his dream job at a bowling ally, with enough reduced spending to support the family despite not making as much money at his new job. This is until he discovers Marge's pregnancy.

After Bart gets caught who tampered with the school's new weather balloon and secretly turned it into an embarrassing version of Principal Skinner, Skinner forces Bart to help with him with his morning astrology in monitoring stars, hoping to find a new discovery that he could name himself. While Skinner is distracted by the balloon, Bart discovered a comet, heading right towards Springfield.

To make up for his reckless spending, Krusty relunctantly opens up a Clown college. After spotting a billboard for the college, Homer cannot resist and upon becoming an official Krusty the Clown impersonator, Homer runs into some trouble with the mob.

In a way to spite Lisa about the matter of how draining water spins, Bart makes calls to every country in the southern hemisphere, including Australia, which sparks international controversy after the residence recieve the bill.

After losing all of his investment on Halloween pumpkins, Homer then is forced to borrow money of Patty and Selma to avoid for the bank to foreclose on his house, while the pair in return try to make him miserable since they'll threaten to tell Marge. When Marge does find out, Homer out of shame decides to become a chauffeur to pay back the twins.

After a national survey places Springfield as the least popular city in America due to the antics of various townspeople, Marge at a town meeting suggests holding a film festival to show the world Springfield's good side to attract more tourists. When Marge asks the critic Jay Sherman to help judge the festival, Homer feels replaced by Jay, due to Jay doing everything better than him.

In a renaissance fair, Lisa stumbles upon a fortune teller who predicts the future fifteen years later. Lisa falls for a British student named Hugh Parkfield and their relationship grows. As she returns to Springfield with him, Hugh proposes a wedding, to which Lisa excepts despite being aware of how embarassing her family can be.

Santa's Little Helper falls for a female greyhound named She's the Fastest, whom he had met during a dog racing track resulting in her losing. They have a relationship which results in She's the Fastest giving birth to 25 puppies. When Homer and Marge decide to sell them away, Mr Burns decides to steal the puppies to make a brand new tuxedo.

Edna Krabappel decides to call up a strike among with other teachers of Springfield Elementary against Principal Skinner as he spends cheaply on the school. Bart further fuels the strike by having them repeatedly turn against Skinner. Parents of the students decide to hire townspeople as substitutes and even themselves such as Marge.

Bart gets a stomachache after swallowing a jagged metal Krusty-O by accident and is forced to go to school despite the intensity of the pain he is suffering. He eventually is cured by having his appendix removed in the hospital and Lisa is reunited with Bleeding Gums Murphy in another ward.

Marge decides to enroll to the police force when she finds such an experience exhilarating after having chasing Snake and having him arrested after a conned Three-card Monte game. She is then qualified as an official police officer after taking training.

Springfield's lemon tree has been stolen by the neighboring town of Shelbyville after a conflict with boys of Springfield, including Bart, and boys of Shelbville. The following day, the Springfield boys then find their lemon tree has been stolen by Shelbyville and sets off to retrieve it in the town.

Springfield Elementary accidently strikes oil, unaware that it had existed beneath it. The School then plans to spend greatly with it. Mr. Burns then discovers about the oil and establishes a slant drilling operation to have it instead, which coincides with the school intending to take the oil with a vertical drilling operation as Springfield Elementary receive no oil and thus are unable to commence their plans with it. The repercussions of this leads to Burns being the most hated man in the town.

Season 6 was released on DVD in its entirety as The Complete Sixth Season Boxset on December 21, 2004 in region 1, March 21, 2005 in Region 2 and March 23, 2005 in Region by 20th Century Fox. While primarily containing the original 22 episodes, the boxset also consists on bonus features such as storyboards.